Hook and eye



(No Model.)

Z. E. BATESKFM. E. COLLINS.

HOOK AND BYE.

'No. 509,347. Patented N0-V.'21,1.893.

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ZERVAH E. BATES AND MARY E. COLLINS, OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

HOOK AND EYE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No..509,347, dated November21, 1893.

Application filed February 14, 1893 To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ZERVAH E. BATES and MARY Es COLLINS, citizens ofthe United States, residing at Grand Rapids, in the county of Kent andState of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inEye Members for Hooks and Eyes; and We do declare the following to be afull, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to theletters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of thisspecification.

Our invention relates to that particular class of hooks and eyes used onladies garments; our objectbeing to produce a device which will be lessexposed to view when the edges of the garment are drawn apart, thanthose generally heretofore in use.

A further object of the invention is to produce a device wherein thehook is prevented from disengaging the eye, except when the user sodesires.

' To accomplish these different objects we construct our invention inthe peculiar manner as will now be described.

7 In the accompanying drawings which illustrate our invention: Figure 1represents an enlarged plan view of the hook and eye disengaged. Fig. 2represents a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3 represents a similarview of the members forced together in the same plane. Fig. atrepresents the position of parts when the members are being disengaged.

In the drawings the reference letter a represents the hook member of ourinvention, preferably made of an integral spring piece of wire. Thiswire is so bent that its ends terminate in loops 1) at the rear of thehook. Loops c are formed at the forward end of the book, all of saidloops being in the same plane with the side wires 61. A tongue 6 isformed from a continuation of'the'side wires d, being bent upward andbackward after passing the loops 0, thereby forming a shoulder f. Af-

ter forming this shoulder, the tongue is bent downward at g and nearlyintersects the plane of the side wires 61. The extreme end h of thetongue is bent slightly upward to facilitate the reception of the eye.By means of the shoulder f, and peculiar formation of the tongue e, itwill be seen that when the same' engages the eye, the latter slips underthe Serial No. 462,299. (No model.)

shoulder and is prevented from slipping out by the spring tendency ofthe tongue. The eye is thus practically locked in place and cannotbecome disengaged.

Any common form of hookcan be used with our form of eye, the one shownand described however being preferable, but we make no claim therefor.

The eye member is represented by the reference letter i, and like thehook member, it is made of an integral piece of spring wire, and is alsoprovided with loops is at its rear corners. Loops Zare formed at itsforward corner, and between these two latter loops the Wire is bent inthe form of an arc m, for the reception of the tonguee of the hookmemher a.

All of the loops lie in the plane of the side wires n, and extendingforward from one of the loops is is a retaining arm 0, bent in the shapeof a U, its forward curve following the general outline of thearc-shaped side m, but at such a'distance therefrom as to allow thetongue 6, to pass freely between. The forward end of this arm 0 isslightly out of theplane of the wires n, whereby, when the two membersare pushed together in the same plane, this retaining arm mounts and.slides back of the shoulder-f, thereby preventing the disengagement ofthe same from the hook member, as shown by Fig. 3. Thus it will be seenthat the hook member must be turned at an angle to the eye member,before the same can be disengaged therefrom, as shown in Fig. 4.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-- The herein-described eye memberconsisting of an integral piece of spring metal, loops formed at itscorners and in the plane of the 5 eye-frame, the frame between the frontloops being arc-shaped, and a U-shaped spring retaining-arm in the rearof the'arc-shaped side, the normal position of which is below the planeof the eye-frame, substantially as de- I00 scribed.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of twowitnesses.

ZERVAH -E. BATES. MARY E. COLLINS.

Witnesses:

L. B. RICE, H. J. MAYNARD.

